Executive Residences, Dubai Hills Estate
Executive Residences is a residential apartment tower in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Emaar Properties as part of the wider Park Ridge development. It is the first of two towers built under the "Executive Residences" name, handed over in 2021, with a second tower, Executive Residences 2, following in 2022. Royale Stays manages short-term rentals across Dubai Hills Estate for a fee starting from 15%, and can support Executive Residences owners who want to convert a long-term rental into a licensed holiday home.
Developer
Emaar Properties (Dubai Hills Estate)
Area
Dubai Hills Estate, Park Ridge district
Unit Mix
1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments; smallest confirmed 1BR approx. 649-657 sq ft
Status
Complete, handed over in 2021; established resale market
Distinguishing feature
DMCC home-office business licence option (launch-tied benefit)
About Executive Residences
Executive Residences is a residential apartment tower in Dubai Hills Estate, developed by Emaar Properties as part of the wider Park Ridge development. It is the first of two towers built under the "Executive Residences" name, handed over in 2021, with a second tower, Executive Residences 2, following in 2022. Positioned within the Park Ridge district alongside Dubai Hills Boulevard, the building offers one, two and three-bedroom apartments, with the smallest confirmed one-bedroom layouts running around 649 to 657 square feet.
Like its sister tower, Executive Residences was built around a live-work concept: units were originally offered with DMCC free-zone business licence benefits, including 100% business ownership, 100% capital repatriation, 0% personal and corporate income tax, and a discounted licence renewal rate, aimed at residents running a home-based business. Buyers on the resale market today should confirm directly with Emaar and DMCC which of these benefits, if any, currently transfer with a given unit, since the original incentive was tied to the off-plan launch rather than guaranteed to carry over on resale.
The building includes a communal swimming pool, gym, landscaped podium spaces, meeting areas and a business cafe intended as informal co-working space, alongside the wider Dubai Hills Estate amenities: an 18-hole golf course, jogging and cycling routes, and Dubai Hills Mall a short drive away. Executive Residences should not be confused with the separate Executive Towers complex in Business Bay, a Dubai Properties development with a similar-sounding name but a different developer, area and project altogether.
Sources vary slightly on this building's completion year: one property portal (Propsearch) states construction ran from November 2017 to May 2022, while two other independent sources (a Dubai Hills Estate specialist portal and an aggregator listing page) state a 2021 handover for this first tower, with the second tower, Executive Residences 2, following in 2022. This guide follows the 2021 figure, since it is corroborated by two independent sources and lines up with Dubai Land Department transaction records that register this building and Executive Residences 2 as separate entities under the same Park Ridge project. The exact storey count is not stated here: the one source found (13 storeys) could not be independently corroborated by a second reliable source.
Location & Nearby Landmarks
Executive Residences sits within Dubai Hills Estate, Emaar's master-planned community built around an 18-hole championship golf course between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina, in the Park Ridge district alongside Dubai Hills Boulevard and Dubai Hills Park. Dubai Hills Mall is a short drive away, with Downtown Dubai and Business Bay both roughly 15 to 20 minutes by car depending on traffic.
Dubai Hills Estate already has a wide range of other buildings covered separately on royalestays.com, including Executive Residences 2, the second tower in this same development, and Park Ridge, part of the same wider Park Ridge masterplan. For a nearby example in a different part of the community, see Eden House. For a wider view of the area's short-term rental market, Royale Stays' Airbnb management guide for Dubai Hills Estate covers licensing and demand across the wider community.
Unit Types
Executive Residences comprises one, two and three-bedroom apartments. The smallest confirmed one-bedroom units run from around 649 to 657 square feet, consistent across several independent listing sources. Larger two and three-bedroom layouts are also available; because Emaar marketed the two Executive Residences towers together as one project, some published size ranges for the wider development may blend both towers’ inventory rather than describing this specific building alone, so buyers should confirm exact floor plans directly with a licensed broker.
Amenities
Executive Residences includes a communal swimming pool, a fully equipped gym, children's play areas, landscaped podium spaces, meeting areas and a business cafe for informal work and networking, 24-hour security, and access to Dubai Hills Estate's wider amenities including jogging trails, a skate park, a splash park, market stalls and an urban beach area.
Sales & Completion Status
Executive Residences was handed over in 2021 and is a ready-to-move development with an established resale market; it is not an off-plan project. Dubai Land Department records show ongoing sale, mortgage and gift transactions for the building through 2026, indicating an active secondary market.
Because Executive Residences is a delivered, actively-transacting building rather than an off-plan project, prospective owners can use comparable Dubai Hills Estate rental data as a starting point when modelling a short-term rental scenario with Royale Stays' ROI calculator.
Airbnb / STR Income Potential
Emaar being the developer of Executive Residences is not itself a short-term-letting restriction. The only Emaar-affiliated brand confirmed to prohibit short-term letting outright is Vida Hotels and Resorts, which does not apply here, so an Executive Residences apartment is not structurally blocked from holiday-home use.
Royale Stays does not currently manage a unit in Executive Residences specifically, but does manage short-term rentals elsewhere in Dubai Hills Estate and could extend the same operational model here: professional photography, dynamic pricing, guest communication, housekeeping between stays and DTCM holiday-home permit handling, for a fee starting from 15%. Owners can read Royale Stays' Dubai holiday home permit guide for how the process works, review the wider guide to Airbnb property management in Dubai, or submit their property directly.
No Executive Residences-specific short-term rental income or occupancy figure is quoted here. This section describes general service capability rather than an existing Executive Residences track record.
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